ROBOZE is supporting the Italian Armed Forces and the Navy by way of an industrial analysis and growth challenge aimed toward radically remodeling spare elements administration within the naval defence sector.
The DIgitales partes Advert Necessitatem Armatorum (DIANA) challenge is designed to develop new technological infrastructures to assist the Italian Armed Forces and the Navy, enhancing the operational availability of naval items by way of superior digitalisation and distributed manufacturing fashions.
Co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Defence below the Nationwide Navy Analysis Plan managed by the Nationwide Armaments Directorate, The DIANA Program has been developed by a consortium composed of ROBOZE, Donexit S.r.l. (a Tinexta Defence group firm), Isotta Fraschini Motori S.p.A., NESST S.r.l., and Politecnico di Bari. Prof. Gianluca Percoco, Full Professor of Manufacturing Applied sciences and Methods at Politecnico di Bari, will supervise the challenge.
The goal of the challenge is to develop a safe digital infrastructure able to figuring out, reconstructing, and producing mission-critical spare elements instantly close to the purpose of use, decreasing dependence on lengthy and susceptible provide chains. It’s going to combine the identification of broken elements on board naval items, digital reconstruction by way of reverse engineering of unavailable elements, and technical validation of fashions and manufacturing information. Technical validation of fashions and manufacturing information and the safe administration of knowledge and manufacturing recordsdata can even be a spotlight of the consortium’s efforts.
“DIANA represents an necessary step towards new upkeep fashions primarily based on digitalisation and distributed manufacturing. These are applied sciences with sturdy dual-use worth, able to producing influence each within the defence sector and in lots of civilian industrial purposes,” stated Prof. Percoco.
As challenge chief, ROBOZE will information the design and integration of the technological platform, coordinating the event of {hardware}, software program, and digital workflows that can allow the safe, scalable, and repeatable manufacturing of mission-critical elements.
“With DIANA, we’re contributing to the event of a brand new industrial infrastructure for fleet operational assist,” added Simone Cuscito, Chief R&D & Product Officer at ROBOZE. “By means of digitalisation and additive manufacturing, we are able to deliver part manufacturing instantly near the purpose of use, drastically decreasing intervention instances and strengthening the operational readiness of naval items.”
As soon as accomplished, the challenge will show how distributed digital manufacturing can turn into a strategic factor for defence upkeep actions, enabling the native and safe manufacturing of mission-critical elements even in advanced operational contexts.